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The policy has been adopted by all ICANN-accredited registrars.It has also been adopted by certain managers of country-code top-level domains (e.g., .nu, .tv, .ws).. The policy is then applicable due to the contract between the registrar (or other registration authority in the case of a country-code top-level domain) and its customer (the domain-name holder or registrant).
Domain Name means a domain name registered directly under the .AOL TLD or for which a request or application for registration has been filed with the Registry; ICANN’s Dispute Policy means the dispute policy currently known as the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) issued and as may be updated from time to time by the Internet
One of the initial tasks of ICANN when it was formed was to deal with the so-called "Trademark Dilemma", [1] [4] which is determining the appropriate balance of rights between domain name holders and trademark owners. So in December 1999 ICANN launched the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy.
The Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), 15 U.S.C. § 1125(d),(passed as part of Pub. L. 106–113 (text)) is a U.S. law enacted in 1999 that established a cause of action for registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name confusingly similar to, or dilutive of, a trademark or personal name.
Several international cyberjustice initiatives have been made. They include ICANN’s Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP), which was created to settle disputes regarding trademark infringement in domain names and issues arising out of cybersquatting and typosquatting.
Under the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP), trademark holders can file a case at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) against typosquatters (as with cybersquatters in general). [7]
Some countries have specific laws against cybersquatting beyond the normal rules of trademark law. For example, according to the United States federal law known as the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA), cybersquatting is registering, trafficking in, or using an Internet domain name with bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else.
.ruhr is a geographic top-level domain for the Ruhr area in Germany in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It launched in November of 2013. [1] The domain operates within the framework of the UDRP (Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy) and supports DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions). Specific details about its actual ...